Locker Room Quotes:

You shouldn't have any betting in the locker room at all, whether it's baseball or it's horses. You can't beat the horses. You can't beat any kind of gambling because they have the odds.

- George Steinbrenner

topic: Baseball, Horse, Gambling, Locker Room, Betting

I don't spend a lot of my time in the locker room. That's my least favourite place in the world.

- Maria Sharapova

topic: World, Lockers, Rooms, Locker Room, Favourite Places

There used to be an old thing where every team had a heavy bag in their locker room for people to punch, but again, it was more about conditioning because if you hit a heavy bag for a minute, it feels like your arms are about to fall off.

- Steve Yzerman

source: ING Sports interview, ca.ign.com. December 1, 2003.

topic: Team, Fall, Old Things, Locker Room

The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.

- Vince Lombardi

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Favorite Sports, Journey To Success

Championships and great seasons are won in locker rooms.

- Tom Izzo

source: Tom Izzo during Big Ten Conference Men's Media Days, www.asapsports.com. October 25, 2012.

topic: Lockers, Rooms, Championship, Locker Room

No one knows what to say in the loser's locker room.

- Muhammad Ali

source: Twitter post from Feb 15, 2011

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Sports, Locker Room, Famous Boxer

I was very emotional. I cried when I got into the locker room. I didn’t want to show that stuff on the sideline.

- Dez Bryant

source: "Dez Bryant Walks Off Field After Tony Romo’s Last Interception, Tweets Explanation" by Michael Klopman, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 16, 2013.

topic: Emotional, Want, Lockers, Locker Room

Notice who is in the locker room after you lose, not after you win.

- Angelo Dundee

topic: Winning, Lockers, Rooms, Locker Room

I celebrate a victory when I start walking off the field. By the time I get to the locker room, I'm done.

- Tom Osborne

topic: Sports, Victory, Done, Locker Room

The most important thing regardless of my stats or anybody else's stats is the win-loss record. In the locker room people are always telling me, you're doing this and that. I don't really pay that much attention so long as we have a 'W' in that column; that's the kind of thing that makes me really happy. It blows all stats out of the water.

- Dhani Jones

topic: Loss, Blow, Winning, Locker Room

In order to gain the respect of your players in the locker room, you can't just perform on Saturday. You have to do it consistently during practices, meetings, and in the weight room.

- Junior Seau

topic: Football, Player, Order, Locker Room, Weight Room

Several of my critics have said, 'Bowerman just tacks up a piece of paper in the locker room and turns his runners loose.' They're partially right. I do give the athletes a relatively free rein and for good reason. One of my principles is? 'Don't overcoach.'

- Bill Bowerman

topic: Running, Athlete, Giving, Locker Room

We had an awesome locker room of girls, and I'm honored to have shared a locker room with all those girls.

- Amy Dumas

topic: Girl, Lockers, Rooms, Locker Room

The bone's 6 inches out of his leg and all he's yelling is, 'Win the game, win the game.' I've not seen that in my life. Pretty special young man. I don't think we could have gathered ourselves - I know I couldn't have - if Kevin didn't say over and over again, 'Just go win the game,' I don't think we could have gone in the locker room with a loss after seeing that. We had to gather ourselves. We couldn't lose this game for him. We just couldn't.

- Rick Pitino

topic: Monday, Morning, Loss, Locker Room

Besides singing "Jump Around" to all the WWE superstars in the locker room? Uh... I enjoy listening to music, pumping up, and getting really muscular and oily. I like to oil myself before.

- The Miz

topic: Wwe, Oil, Listening, Locker Room

I'd told Taker before the promo that I was gonna stick it to him and he told me to go for it. However, I crossed the line and insulted him by saying what I said. I can't believe the lack of respect I showed him and so many of the other guys in the locker room during my first month in the company, especially since I knew how important the hierarchy of the business was (and still is). Respect your elders.

- Chris Jericho

topic: Believe, Wwe, Guy, Insulted Him, Lack Of Respect

Off the floor I'm really laid back, like nothing really fazes me too much. But on the floor I do get emotional and a little carried away. However, I started playing when I was 13 to have fun with my teammates, and that never stopped. I enjoy traveling and having fun in the locker room with the guys. Life is too short to be miserable.

- Dirk Nowitzki

source: "Dad is biggest critic, says NBA star Dirk Nowitzki". Interview with Terry Baddoo, edition.cnn.com. February 24, 2011.

topic: Funny, Life Is Too Short, Emotional, Locker Room, Carried Away

Tim Henman, I guess, is sitting in the locker room, pacing up and down.

- John Inverdale

topic: Tennis, Sitting, Lockers, Pacing, Locker Room

I took the game seriously. It was my profession. My teammates also took losing hard. We would all sit in the locker room after losing a big game and talk about how we could have done something differently to change the outcome

- Walt Frazier

topic: Games, Done, Teammate, Locker Room

You can pick captains, but you can't pick leaders. Whoever controls the locker room controls the team

- Don Meyer

topic: Basketball, Team, Leader, Locker Room

I told Zollie Volchok we needed an ultrasound machine and he asked me why we needed music in the locker room.

- Lenny Wilkens

topic: Basketball, Ultrasounds, Machines, Locker Room

But [Sunday] as you saw, it was obviously [the media] took some more than initiative to try to get me to kind of go down the wrong path. I know the last two teams that I've been on, I felt like I left those teams prematurely due to media interviews that I've done and things kind of taken out of context and they created sort of a media whirlwind in the locker room and things kind of went downhill from there. I'm just trying to do the best job I can do as far as answering the questions and trying to be a better teammate and not try to throw people under the bus.

- Terrell Owens

topic: Jobs, Team, Taken, Locker Room, Wrong Path

You have to be extreme to be exceptional. I couldn't revel in being number one. I had to get to zero. When my fitness was at its peak, I was intimidating. I made guys cave in. They'd be dejected in the locker room after matches, and I'd go out for a run, as if it wasn't enough. I'd rub it in their faces. I meant to do that.

- Jim Courier

topic: Softball, Sports, Running, Locker Room, Dejected

I go into the locker room and find a corner and just sit there. I try to achieve a peaceful state of nothingness that will carry over onto the golf course. If I can get that feeling of quiet and obliviousness within myself, I feel I can't lose.

- Jane Blalock

topic: Golf, Peaceful, Feelings, Locker Room

Leadership can't be fabricated. If it is fabricated and rehearsed, you can't fool the guys in the locker room. So when you talk about leadership, it comes with performance. Leadership comes with consistency.

- Junior Seau

topic: Leadership, Guy, Consistency, Locker Room

There were butterflies, otherwise, you're not really ready to play. The locker room, I remember, was quiet and we were very focused on playing that game.

- John Starks

topic: Butterfly, Games, Play, Locker Room

I think the locker room is a huge part of the football team and often is a part thats overlooked. The chemistry in your locker room has a lot to do with how youre going to go out there and perform.

- Larry Fitzgerald

topic: Football, Team, Thinking, Overlooked, Locker Room

I don't think there has been enough communication between the players and the tournaments. In one sense it's just as much the players' fault. Players talk between each other and in the locker room about things that can be improved and then when the time comes to talk and really do something about it they stop.

- Novak Djokovic

topic: Communication, Thinking, Player, Locker Room

I'm an organizational fanatic. I created a locker room that the children pass through when they come in the house. Each child has a personal locker, and every day when they arrive home from school, they dump their stuff there-backpacks, shoes, soccer uniforms. I organize them by season.

- Kathryn Sansone

source: Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. May 2003.

topic: Soccer, Children, Home, Locker Room

With the Cardinals everybody would be reading the business section to see what their stocks were doing. You get to this locker room (Pirates) in the morning and everybody is looking at the sports page to see if Hulk Hogan won.

- Andy Van Slyke

topic: Sports, Morning, Reading, Locker Room

I've always favored kids as a player. If I walked out of the locker room and there were 100 people there and 50 of them were kids, I'd sign the 50 kids before anything else.

- Chili Davis

topic: Kids, Player, People, Locker Room

It is said that courage isn’t the absence of fear but the fortitude to confront fear. And as long as homophobia continues to be an accepted element of the locker room culture and homophobic language a coach’s motivational tool, we can never dismiss the courage it takes for an athlete-on any level-to be openly gay. Bobby Blair may not be a household name, but his journey-from frightened collegiate athlete to empowered advocate-is one that has an important lesson for anyone who believes in the unifying power of sports.

- LZ Granderson

topic: Sports, Believe, Athlete, Unifying, Locker Room

You have to know what's happening in the locker rooms, you have to know what's happening at the grass-roots level. That's the best way to work.

- Jacques Rogge

topic: Roots, Levels, Lockers, Locker Room

I've carried a gun for 10 years. I've carried them in the locker room, and nobody really knows about it. I know how to handle myself, and I stow it away where nobody really knows about it.

- Luke Scott

topic: Gun, Years, Lockers, Locker Room

We are not familiar with losing, and that is one thing we stress in this locker room: Dont get familiar with losing, because we never lose games here. I think a lot of guys know that, and they know the tradition behind the Green Bay Packers, so it is time for us to get on this road and start winning games.

- Donald Driver

topic: Stress, Thinking, Winning, Locker Room, Winning Games

I consider myself more of a loner now and I think when you get older, especially in this game, and just talking with other players who have come and gone, I see what they were saying when I was a young guy in the locker room.

- Brett Favre

topic: Sports, Thinking, Player, Locker Room

I hate letting my teammates down. I know I'm not going to make every shot. Sometimes I try to make the right play, and if it results in a loss, I feel awful. I don't feel awful because I have to answer questions about it. I feel awful in that locker room because I could have done something more to help my teammates win.

- LeBron James

topic: Hate, Loss, Winning, Locker Room

The Raiders of old were vicious and crazy and cruel. Hanging around their locker room was like hanging around the weight room at Folsom Prison.

- Hunter S. Thompson

topic: Crazy, Lockers, Rooms, Raiders, Hanging Around

Readers are bullied in schoolyards and in locker-rooms as much as in government offices and prisons.

- Alberto Manguel

topic: Government, Office, Lockers, Locker Room

How could he convey to someone who'd never even met her the way she always smelled like rain, or how his stomach knotted up every time he saw her shake loose her hair from its braid? How could he describe how it felt when she finished his sentences, turnec the mug they were sharing so that her mouth landed where his had been? How did he explain the way they could be in a locker room, or underwater, or in the piney woods of Maine, bus as long as Em was with him, he was at home?

- Jodi Picoult

topic: Rain, Home, Hair, Braids, Mug

People might be making too much of me maturing and growing; I’m still the same person. I still like to joke around and have fun in the locker room and on the road trips. I still get into arguments with Jonathan because we both have strong opinions, and we’re both so comfortable with our relationship that we can argue and still have a healthy friendship.

- Patrick Kane

source: "Patrick Kane: Scratching the surface". www.nhl.com. November 22, 2011.

topic: Strong, Fun, People, Strong Opinions, Locker Room

You see, everyone in that locker-room gotta pager. And everyone that looks at that pager, sees the three-one-six, so their ***** belongs to me.

- Stone Cold Steve Austin

topic: Wwe, Looks, Lockers, Locker Room

I’m LeBron James, from Akron, Ohio, from the inner city. I’m not even supposed to be here. That’s enough. Every night I walk into the locker room, I see a No. 6 with James on the back, I’m blessed. So what everybody says about me off the court, don’t matter. I ain’t got no worries.

- LeBron James

source: "LeBron James Talks Akron, Being Blessed And His Lack Of Worries During Postgame Speech". www.huffingtonpost.com. June 21, 2013.

topic: Blessed, Night, Ohio, Inner City, Locker Room

If we address frankly what is evoked by cheese, I think it becomes clear why so little is said. So what does cheese evoke? Damp dark cellars, molds, mildews and mushrooms galore, dirty laundry and high school locker rooms, digestive processes and visceral fermentations, he-goats which do not remind of Chanel ... In sum, cheese reminds of dubious, even unsavory places, both in nature and in our own organisms. And yet we love it.

- Michael Pollan

source: Michael Pollan (2013). “Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation”, p.222, Penguin

topic: Dirty, School, Dark, Mildew, Locker Room

Twenty years ago, you'd see guys busting rackets in locker rooms. Today they do it in their hotel rooms.

- Brad Gilbert

topic: Years, Guy, Twenties, Hotel Rooms, Locker Room

So I was ugly. I was never fat, really, and I never wore headgear or had zits or anything. But I was ugly. I don't even know how ugly and pretty get decided - maybe there's like a secret cabal of boys who meet in the locker room and decide who's ugly and who's hot, because as far as I can remember, there was no such thing as a hot fourth-grader. - Lindsey Lee Wells

- John Green

source: John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.67, Penguin

topic: Boys, Secret, Rooms, Cabal, Locker Room

Now, I figured that the built-up gas in most boys' locker rooms was enough to cause an explosion, so I wasn't surprised when the flaming dodgeball ignited a huge WHOOOOOOOM!

- Rick Riordan

source: Rick Riordan (2007). “The Sea of Monsters”, Disney-Hyperion

topic: Boys, Dodgeball, Lockers, Locker Room

I don't see us having a problem. It's going to be my job to manage the locker room, anyway, so it will work out.

- Shaquille O'Neal

topic: Basketball, Jobs, Work Out, Locker Room

What I meant by that is, any time you have adversity, now you've got a chance to see all of these guys play every game the rest of the way like it's a playoff game. What you want guys to do when there's adversity is to play harder and play better, and that's when you see what kind of guys you have in your locker room.

- Mike Shanahan

topic: Adversity, Games, Play, Locker Room, Playoff Games

The sign at the entrance to my gym locker room says, no cell phones please, cell phones are cameras. They are not. A camera is a Nikon or a Leica or Rolleiflex, and when you strike someone with one, they know they have been hit with something substantial.

- Danny Lyon

topic: Phones, Cells, Cameras, Leica, Locker Room